purpose some major competitions (e.g. london olympics, 2012) are scheduled during the ramadan fasting month. little attention has been given to explore the archers’ performance related subjective experiences with a qualitative method. therefore, this study addressed individual archers’ subjective experiences within the framework of self-regulation during ramadan. methods eleven elite malaysian ...

Despite substantial differences between the medical model and empowerment theory, there is no reason that mental health consumers cannot simultaneously seek recovery from illness and powerlessness by using the best of both strategies. Perhaps an individual with mental illness can regain full control over life events only after psychopathology has dissipated, as suggested by the medical model, a...

The paper intends to clarify whether the supervenience theory of mind, with special reference to Kim, can be identified with the emergence theory of mind. Kim’s thesis admits that the mental properties are in some sense dependent on the physical properties. Such supervenience might be understood to mean that there cannot be two events alike in all physical respects, i.e. an object cannot alter ...

Theory reenement is the task of updating a domain theory in the light of new cases, to be done automatically or with some expert assistance. The problem of theory reenement under uncertainty is reviewed here in the context of Bayesian statistics, a theory of belief revision. The problem is reduced to an incre-mental learning task as follows: the learning system is initially primed with a partia...

Sperber and Wilson's (1986) relevance theory makes explicit the role of the comprehension of intentions in human communication. Autistic people have been hypothesized to suffer from a specific and characteristic impairment in the ability to attribute such mental states (e.g., beliefs, intentions); a lack of "theory of mind". According to relevance theory, then, autistic people should have speci...

We develop a general neural network-based architecture for the process of mental simulation, initially treated at a somewhat abstract level. To develop the theory further it is shown how the theory can handle observational learning as a specific form of mental simulation: simulations are presented of simple paradigms and results obtained on children undergoing tests on observational learning. Q...

This paper develops a theoretical explanation for the sexual sadistic serial murderer's heterosexual lifestyle. The theoretical formulation developed draws upon Glasser's (1984) control theory and Marshal's (1989) general theory of sexual offending. It synthesizes Glasser's propositions around idealized life style and mental pictures and Marshal's propositions on intimacy. The theoretical formu...

In recent years a number of different cognitive theories that explain human reasoning processes have been developed. This paper focusses on two broadly discussed theories: the theory of mental logic and the theory of mental models. Both theories are presented and analyzed in formal terms and compared with respect to their explanatory and predictive power. Our claim is that only a precise comput...

Since the revolutionary mood of the 1960s, patient-centered mental health care and a research emphasis on service users as experts by experience have emerged hand in hand with a view of service users as consumers. What happens to knowledge derived from firsthand experience when mental health users become experts and actively choose care? What kind of perspective do service users pursue on psych...